To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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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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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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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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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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