Accident is simply unforeseen order.
NOVALISLove is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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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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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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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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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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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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Humanity is a comic role.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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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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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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