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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
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
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
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
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk

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