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.
NOVALISTo know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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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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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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