"Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues."
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"The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free."
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"Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical."
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"If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals."
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"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going."
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"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."
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"To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life as his own. He accepts as being good: to preserve life, to raise to its highest value life which is capable of development; and as being evil: to destroy life, to injure life, to repress life which is capable of development. This is the absolute, fundamental principle of the moral, and it is a necessity of thought."
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"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."
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"Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits."
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"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large."
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"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart."
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"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands."
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"Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle..."
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"Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable"
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"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."
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"The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine."
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"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."
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"Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do."
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"If you wish to be a writer, write."
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"Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it."
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