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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
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
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe 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
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap

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