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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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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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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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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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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
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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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe

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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