Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
NOVALISPhilosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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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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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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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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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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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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