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Single Idea 19574
[filed under theme 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth
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Full Idea
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.
Gist of Idea
If man sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself, by acting against his own convictions
Source
Novalis (Miscellaneous Observations [1798], 038)
Book Ref
Novalis: 'Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Stoljar,M.M. [SUNY 1997], p.29
A Reaction
Does he condone lying here, as long as you don't believe the lie? We would call it loss of integrity.
The
32 ideas
from Novalis
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19591
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Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect
[Novalis]
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22026
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Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere
[Novalis]
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19592
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The basic relations of nature are musical
[Novalis]
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19593
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Persons are shaped by a life history; splendid persons are shaped by world history
[Novalis]
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19594
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General statements about nature are not valid
[Novalis]
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19595
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Nature is a whole, and its individual parts cannot be wholly understood
[Novalis]
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19596
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The whole body is involved in the formation of thoughts
[Novalis]
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22025
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Novalis thought self-consciousness cannot disclose 'being', because we are temporal creatures
[Novalis, by Pinkard]
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19579
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The history of philosophy is just experiments in how to do philosophy
[Novalis]
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19580
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If the pupil really yearns for the truth, they only need a hint
[Novalis]
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19581
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A problem is a solid mass, which the mind must break up
[Novalis]
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19582
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Morality and philosophy are mutually dependent
[Novalis]
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19583
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Philosophy only begins when it studies itself
[Novalis]
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19584
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Whoever first counted to two must have seen the possibility of infinite counting
[Novalis]
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19585
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Every person has his own language
[Novalis]
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22027
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Life isn't given to us like a novel - we write the novel
[Novalis]
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22067
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Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe
[Novalis]
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19586
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Philosophers feed on problems, hoping they are digestible, and spiced with paradox
[Novalis]
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19587
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Philosophy aims to produce a priori an absolute and artistic world system
[Novalis]
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19588
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The highest aim of philosophy is to combine all philosophies into a unity
[Novalis]
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19597
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Logic (the theory of relations) should be applied to mathematics
[Novalis]
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19598
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Philosophy relies on our whole system of learning, and can thus never be complete
[Novalis]
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19571
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Delusion and truth differ in their life functions
[Novalis]
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19572
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Experiences tests reason, and reason tests experience
[Novalis]
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19573
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The seat of the soul is where our inner and outer worlds interpenetrate
[Novalis]
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19574
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If man sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself, by acting against his own convictions
[Novalis]
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19575
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Refinement of senses increasingly distinguishes individuals
[Novalis]
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19576
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Religion needs an intermediary, because none of us can connect directly to a godhead
[Novalis]
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19577
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Everything is a chaotic unity, then we abstract, then we reunify the world into a free alliance
[Novalis]
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19578
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Only self-illuminated perfect individuals are beautiful
[Novalis]
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19590
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Empiricists are passive thinkers, given their philosophy by the external world and fate
[Novalis]
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19589
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The whole point of a monarch is that we accept them as a higher-born, ideal person
[Novalis]
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