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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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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
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
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
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
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth

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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