The badge of honesty is simplicity.
NOVALISIt is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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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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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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