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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
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
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
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 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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious

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