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.
NOVALISTo know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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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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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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