To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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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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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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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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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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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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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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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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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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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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