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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
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
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
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite

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