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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.

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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
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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True

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