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

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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue

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

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