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

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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
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
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
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
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
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
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
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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 become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
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

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