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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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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand

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