Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
NOVALISTo get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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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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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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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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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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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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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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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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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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