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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

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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
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
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
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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
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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