Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
NOVALISThe artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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