"Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation."
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"One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly."
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"What is fruitful alone is true."
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"Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united."
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"But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go."
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"The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever."
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"The philosophers must station themselves in the middle."
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"Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites."
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"Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth."
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"But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command."
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"A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous."
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"Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]"
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"Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits."
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"The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal."
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"Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light."
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"Every form correctly seen is beautiful"
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"The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]"
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"Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites."
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"Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows."
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"Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work."
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