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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
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 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
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
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
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
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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

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