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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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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
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
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
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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
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
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

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