To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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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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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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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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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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