The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
NOVALISOnly the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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