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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path 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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
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
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
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
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
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
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
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

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