Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
NOVALISNothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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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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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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