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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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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
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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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
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 artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
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

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