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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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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
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
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
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
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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

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