Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
NOVALISGenius 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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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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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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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