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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
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
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
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 history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy

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