"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."
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"We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people."
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"Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination."
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"The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many."
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"And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them."
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"I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment"
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"Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts."
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"We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint."
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"Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect."
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"Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is."
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"Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?"
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"Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love"
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"The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world."
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"The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility."
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"The good is the beautiful."
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"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
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"Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways."
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"Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause."
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"Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."
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"No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed."
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