We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
NOVALISEverywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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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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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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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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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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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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