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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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 history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk 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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
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
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
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
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
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature

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