We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
NOVALISPhilosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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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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