We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
NOVALISWe are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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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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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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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 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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A God-intoxicated man.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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