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Georg Simmel, The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms Quotes: One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.
         

One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.


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By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline, that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline, that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.



Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.





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