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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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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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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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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