Character is a wish for a perfect education.
NOVALISNothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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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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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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A character is a completely fashioned 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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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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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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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.
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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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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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