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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root

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