Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
NOVALISThe brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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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 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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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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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A God-intoxicated man.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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