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

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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking

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