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Nature is a petrified magic city.

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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking

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