Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
NOVALISLearning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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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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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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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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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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