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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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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
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
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
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
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
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection

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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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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