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

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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
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 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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
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
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
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring

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