When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
NOVALISChristianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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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.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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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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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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