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

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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
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
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
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
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
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
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play

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