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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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 poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
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
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 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
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

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