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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

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