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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
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
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
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
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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

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