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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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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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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
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Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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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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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
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