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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
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
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
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
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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

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