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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
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
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
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
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
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
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy

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