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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
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
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 brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World

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