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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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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
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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
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
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap

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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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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