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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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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
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
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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 world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
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
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River

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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