Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
NOVALISWhen you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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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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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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.
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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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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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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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