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“Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.”

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Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in…

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To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

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