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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

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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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search

Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

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