The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
NOVALISThere 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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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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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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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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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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A God-intoxicated man.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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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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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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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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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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