Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.
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Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.
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Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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