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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

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