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Where children are, there is the golden age.

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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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
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
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
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
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
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
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

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