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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
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 poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself 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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
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
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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

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