Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
NOVALISAccident is simply unforeseen order.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Every 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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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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Humanity is a comic role.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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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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