Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
NOVALISFriends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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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 history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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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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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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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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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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