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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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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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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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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