Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
NOVALISYou are alone with everything you love.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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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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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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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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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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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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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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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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