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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

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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
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself 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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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
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 brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

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