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.
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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Philosophy 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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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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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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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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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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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