Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
NOVALISI often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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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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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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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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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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