The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
NOVALISThe history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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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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Where are we really going? Always home.
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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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