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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
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
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
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
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
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
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True

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