In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
NOVALISWhere are we really going? Always home.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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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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Humanity is a comic role.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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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 know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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