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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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
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
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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time

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