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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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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
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
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly 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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