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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
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
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
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
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
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
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics

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