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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
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
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
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
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
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap

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