One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
NOVALISThe 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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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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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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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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