A character is a completely fashioned will.
NOVALISOnly an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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