Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
NOVALISMan is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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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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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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