Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
NOVALISPhilosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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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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You are alone with everything you love.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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