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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
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
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
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
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth

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