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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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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
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
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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
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
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

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