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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.

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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
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 artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
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
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking

The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.

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