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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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
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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy

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