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A character is a completely fashioned will.

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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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun

A character is a completely fashioned will.

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