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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

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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
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
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
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
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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
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
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind

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