Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
NOVALISTo philosophize means to make vivid.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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