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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

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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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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

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