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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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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
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
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
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
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 artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue

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