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

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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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
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
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
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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 individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up

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

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