Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
NOVALISKnowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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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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You are alone with everything you love.
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