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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
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
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search

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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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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