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

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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
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

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