Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
NOVALISOnly as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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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 can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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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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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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