The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
NOVALISPhilosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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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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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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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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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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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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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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