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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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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
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
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
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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
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
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
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission

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

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