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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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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 brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
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
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
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
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul

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