The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
NOVALISLearning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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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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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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