Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
NOVALISMan is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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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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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