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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
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
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
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 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

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