Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
NOVALISWhere are we really going? Always home.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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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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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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There 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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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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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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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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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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