A character is a completely fashioned will.
NOVALISMan has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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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 world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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The 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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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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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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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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A God-intoxicated man.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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