There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
NOVALISWe are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Many 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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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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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; every cure is a musical solution.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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