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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

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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 poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
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
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

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