In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
NOVALISIf 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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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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