A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
NOVALISMan is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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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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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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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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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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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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