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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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

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