Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
NOVALISOnly an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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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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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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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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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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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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