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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
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
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 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
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

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