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

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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
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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 poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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 more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
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
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive

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

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