Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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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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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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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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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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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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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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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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