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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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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
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
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
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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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True

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