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.
NOVALISIf 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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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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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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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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