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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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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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
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
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
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
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
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
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
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
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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
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

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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