To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
NOVALISTo get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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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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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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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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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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