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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
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In true prose everything must be underlined.
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