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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
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
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
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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

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