Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
NOVALISThe artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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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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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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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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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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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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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Humanity is a comic role.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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