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The badge of honesty is simplicity.

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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
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
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk

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