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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

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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
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
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
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

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