Where children are, there is the golden age.
NOVALISThere 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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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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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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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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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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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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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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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