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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

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