Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
NOVALISMan is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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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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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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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