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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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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
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
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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 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
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
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
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
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
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play

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