If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
NOVALISWhen you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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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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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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