To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
NOVALISFate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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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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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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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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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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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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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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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