Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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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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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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