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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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
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
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
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
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
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
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe

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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