Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
NOVALISPhilosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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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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