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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.
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Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Man is the higher Sense of our Planet; the star which connects it with the upper world; the eye which it turns towards Heaven.
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We touch Heaven, when we lay our hand on a human body.
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Our life is no Dream, but it may and will perhaps become one.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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