To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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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Humanity is a comic role.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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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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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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