One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
NOVALISHumanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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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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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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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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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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