Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
NOVALISTo philosophize means to make vivid.
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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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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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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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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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.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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