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.
NOVALISEvery stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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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 cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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