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Habit (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠living is what brings on death — or, if quite abstract, is death itself; yet without habit no religious or moral content could ever become part of who one is.

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Habit (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠how the soul has its contents without feeling them: it moves in them without consciousness, and so is free to be occupied with something else.

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Habit (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the mechanism of self-feeling, as memory is the mechanism of intelligence.

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Habit (n.) emancipates ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠man from his feelings even while he is affected by them; the habit of right and goodness is an embodiment of liberty.

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Mind (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the existent truth of matter — the truth that matter itself has no truth.

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Mind (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠such is free and therefore cannot go mad; only as a soul, a thing, can it suffer the settled fixture of some finite element.

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Mind (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠nature for its presupposition, yet is nature's truth and therefore its absolute prius — what comes after is what was first.

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Mind (n.) keeps ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its lower stages inside it as features of the higher, unlike nature, whose stages stand apart — so the highest moral and religious life can show up disguised as mere sensation.

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Feeling (n.) makes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a principle my very own: what is only in the head can be held apart from me, what is in the heart is a mode of my individuality.

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Feeling (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the lowest and worst form in which reason can exist — not more than thought, but less.

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Feeling (n.) clung ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to against reason holds nothing more than reason does except particular subjectivity, vanity and caprice.

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Feeling (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠where everything starts — but source only means the first, crudest way a thing appears.

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Soul (n.) conceived ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠abstractly is only the sleep of mind.

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Soul (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no separate immaterial entity: wherever there is nature, the soul is its universal immaterialism, its simple ideal life.

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Soul (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠one simple, omnipresent unity in the body: for the feeling soul the body's parts-outside-parts are no barrier and no truth.

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Soul (n.) for ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠modern metaphysics became a thing with many powers, fixed as a spectre or an angel and even given a colour — Kant's merit was to put the self in its place.

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Insanity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not an abstract loss of reason but a contradiction within a reason that still subsists — just as disease is not total loss of health, which would be death.

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Insanity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠dreaming within the waking limits — the dream becomes part of one's actual self-feeling.

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Insanity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the evil genius of man gaining the upper hand: when principle relaxes its lock and key, the vanity, pride and selfish passions always latent in the natural heart are set free.

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Insanity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a single feeling or fixed idea that refuses its proper place in the ordered world of a conscious subject, and so stands in contradiction to the whole.

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Spirit (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not reveal something; its very mode and meaning is revelation.

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Spirit (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the act by which nullity is nullified and vanity is made vain.

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Spirit (n.) coming ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠into being means that nature realises its own untruth and sets itself aside.

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The Heart (n.) legitimates ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠nothing: an appeal to heart and feeling either means nothing or means something bad — for from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murder, adultery.

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The Heart (n.) finds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its rationality only in the universality of intelligence, never in the individuality of feeling.

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The Heart (n.) without ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠understanding, or understanding without heart, is the most trivial form of a false separation.

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Pain (n.) and ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠evil exist only where the concept confronts its existence — in death and stone there is neither; in life, and still more in spirit, freedom is their very principle.

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Pain (n.) and ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠torture were seen by Jacob Boehme as the source of nature and of spirit.

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Recognition (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠universal self-consciousness, knowing oneself in another self: I am free only as I recognise the other and know it to be free.

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Recognition (n.) begins ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in a contradiction: I perceive myself in the other as an I, and yet the other is an I absolutely independent of me.

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Clairvoyance (n.) skips ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the chain of means that cool reflection must traverse — which is exactly why it is at the mercy of every private whim and can never tell what it sees from what it fancies.

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Clairvoyance (n.) sees ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only its own particular little world, never the general essence — the magic circle of sympathy with nature is finally an incantation, a subjugation.