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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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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
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
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
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
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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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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Philosophy Point Soul World
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
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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

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