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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
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
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
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
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe

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