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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

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