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.
NOVALISThe 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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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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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