Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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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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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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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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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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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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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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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