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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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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
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
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth

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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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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