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Character is perfectly educated will.

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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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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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 history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue

Character is perfectly educated will.

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