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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself 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
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

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