Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
NOVALISKnowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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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 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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You are alone with everything you love.
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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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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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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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