The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
NOVALISPhilosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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