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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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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
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap

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

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