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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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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 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 history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth

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