The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
NOVALISThe brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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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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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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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