The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
NOVALISAll power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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