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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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

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