Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
NOVALISPoetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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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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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Philosophy 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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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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