Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
NOVALISDoing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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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 near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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