Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
NOVALISThe 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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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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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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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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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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