Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
NOVALISCharacter is perfectly educated will.
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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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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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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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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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