There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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