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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

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