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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

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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
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
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
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
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

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