Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
NOVALISChristianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Life 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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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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