Character is perfectly educated will.
NOVALISAll power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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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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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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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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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Where are we really going? Always home.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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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 philosophize means to make vivid.
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