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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
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
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
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
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True

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