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.
NOVALISThe artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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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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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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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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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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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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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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