Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
NOVALISPhilosophy 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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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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