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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue

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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