Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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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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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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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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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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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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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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