Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
NOVALISWhen you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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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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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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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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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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