Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
NOVALISBuilding worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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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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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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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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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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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