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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

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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
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
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 never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

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