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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking

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