Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
NOVALISLife 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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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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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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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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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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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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