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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.

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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
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
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
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
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
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel 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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole

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