A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
NOVALISWe never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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