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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

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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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
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
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun

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