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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
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
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
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
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent

Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

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