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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
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
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious

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