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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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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
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
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
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
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
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
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
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time

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