There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
NOVALISThe 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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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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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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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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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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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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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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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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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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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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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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