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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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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
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
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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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 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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