All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
NOVALISOne 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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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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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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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