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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

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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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
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
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

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