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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

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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
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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
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
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

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