You are alone with everything you love.
NOVALISThe 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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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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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere 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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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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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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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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