Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
NOVALISCharacter is perfectly educated will.
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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at 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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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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