We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
NOVALISEvery stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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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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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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