The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
NOVALISMany 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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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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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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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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