Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
NOVALISPoetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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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