Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
NOVALISMany books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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