Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
NOVALISCharacter is perfectly educated will.
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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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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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