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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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel

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