We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
NOVALISIf 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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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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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.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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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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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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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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