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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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
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
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe

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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