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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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 badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure

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