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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
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 individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
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
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
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe

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