A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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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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Humanity is a comic role.
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Only 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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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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