Character is perfectly educated will.
NOVALISLove is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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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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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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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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