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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

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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
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
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
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
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
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
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
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
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
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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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
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

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