Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
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Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
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Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
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