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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
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
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
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
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
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
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

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