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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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 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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel

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