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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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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
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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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
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
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
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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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
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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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
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
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
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
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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand

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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