Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
NOVALISAll power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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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 ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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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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