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To philosophize means to make vivid.

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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman

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