To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
NOVALISMathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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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 history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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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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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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