Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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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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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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