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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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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
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
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
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

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