Nature is a petrified magic city.
NOVALISIn a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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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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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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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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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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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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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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