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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
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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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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
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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul

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