Humanity is a comic role.
NOVALISNot only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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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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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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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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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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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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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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