Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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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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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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