Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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