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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

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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 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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

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