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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
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 the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
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
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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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up

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