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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

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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
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
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
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
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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

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