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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.

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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
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
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
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
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
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.

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