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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
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 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
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
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
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution

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