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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
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 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 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
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
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
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics

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