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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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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
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
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
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
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring

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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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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