Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
NOVALISWhat delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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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 hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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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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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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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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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