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

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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
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
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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 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
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul

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