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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

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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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch

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