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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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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
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
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
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
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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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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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