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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
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
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind

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