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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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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
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
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
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
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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
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

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