Character is a wish for a perfect education.
NOVALISPhilosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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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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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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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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