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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

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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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
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
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
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
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work

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