Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
NOVALISEvery disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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There 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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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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