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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

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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
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
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
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
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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

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