It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
NOVALISOnly the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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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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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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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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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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