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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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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
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
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
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
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
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself

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