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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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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
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
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy

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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