Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
NOVALISOne can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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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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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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