Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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 an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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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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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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