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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap

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