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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

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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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
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
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia 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
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves

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