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.
NOVALISThe poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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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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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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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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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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