Our bodies are molded rivers.
NOVALISThere 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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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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