The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
NOVALISWe are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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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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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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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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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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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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