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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
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
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

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