In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
NOVALISThe true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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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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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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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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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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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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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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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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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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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