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.
NOVALISMan has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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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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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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You are alone with everything you love.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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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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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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