Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
NOVALISThe history of every individual man should be a Bible.
More Novalis Quotes
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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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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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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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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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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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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