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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
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
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity

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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