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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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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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