To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
NOVALISOur bodies are molded rivers.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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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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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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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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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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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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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.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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