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.
NOVALISOne should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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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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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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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 should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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