A character is a completely fashioned will.
NOVALISThere is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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