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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
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
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

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

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