Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
NOVALISThe individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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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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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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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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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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