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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
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
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
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
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

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