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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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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
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
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
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River

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