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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
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
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
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
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
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
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 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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth

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