Accident is simply unforeseen order.
NOVALISWhat delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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 a wish for a perfect education.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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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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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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