Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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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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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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