Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
NOVALISLife 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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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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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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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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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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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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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