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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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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
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
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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
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
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
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
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time

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