A character is a completely fashioned will.
NOVALISThe 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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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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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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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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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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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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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