To philosophize means to make vivid.
NOVALISThe individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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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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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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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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