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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work

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