The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
NOVALISChristianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Genius 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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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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