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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Collection: Inspirational
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Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.
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Collection: Clever
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Collection: Doe
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Humanity is a comic role.
- Novalis
Collection: Humanity
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.
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Collection: Philosophy
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Collection: Transition
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.
- Novalis
Collection: World
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Play is experimenting with chance.
- Novalis
Collection: Play
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.
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Collection: Thinking
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Collection: Earth
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Collection: Rain
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Collection: Education