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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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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
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
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
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold

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