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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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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
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

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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