It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
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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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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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