Nature is a petrified magic city.
NOVALISA hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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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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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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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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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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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