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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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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
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
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
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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
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 artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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

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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