Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
NOVALISWe are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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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Humanity is a comic role.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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