Character is perfectly educated will.
NOVALISMan is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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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 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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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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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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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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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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