I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity in our common stupidity.
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There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points and is fatal.
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Every truth is true only up to a point. Beyond that, by way of counter-point, it becomes untruth.
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Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
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The case with most men is that they go out into life with one or another accidental characteristic of personality of which they say Well, this is the way I am. I cannot do otherwise. Then the world gets to work on them and thus the majority of men are ground into conformity. In each generation a small part cling to their 'I cannot do otherwise' and lose their minds. Finally there are a very few in each generation who in spite of all life's terrors cling with more and more inwardness to this 'I cannot do otherwise'. They are the geniuses. Their 'I cannot do otherwise' is an infinite thought, for if one were to cling firmly to a finite thought, he would lose his mind.
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