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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 badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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
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
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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

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