We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
NOVALISEverywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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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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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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