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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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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
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
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
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
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
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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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