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.
NOVALISWhen you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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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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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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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.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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