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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

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