We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
NOVALISWhat delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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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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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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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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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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