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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.

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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
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
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk

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