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" The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. "

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" Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe. "

" The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened. "

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" We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt. "

" One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. "

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" The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. "

" Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. "

" How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. "

" Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. "

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" In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world. "

" Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. "

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" Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. "

" The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving. "

" Evil is whatever distracts. "

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" If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow? "

" Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it. "