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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth

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