It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
NOVALISPhilosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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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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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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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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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Life 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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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