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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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 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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
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
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
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
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy

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