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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

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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
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition

Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

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