Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
NOVALISAccident is simply unforeseen order.
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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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Character is perfectly educated will.
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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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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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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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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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