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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.

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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
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
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
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
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.

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