Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
NOVALISPhilosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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