Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
NOVALISTo know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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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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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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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 character is a completely fashioned will.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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