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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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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
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
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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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
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
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
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

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