Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
NOVALISEvery beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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