The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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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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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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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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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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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