Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
NOVALISThere is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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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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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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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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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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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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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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