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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
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
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
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
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
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

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