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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
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
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
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
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
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
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

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