The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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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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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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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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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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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