A God-intoxicated man.
NOVALISWe are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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