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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
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 must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole

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