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.
NOVALISIn cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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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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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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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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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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