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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

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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
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
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
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up

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