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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?

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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 artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
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
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
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
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water

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