Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
NOVALISWe are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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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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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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