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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

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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
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
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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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
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

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