A character is a completely fashioned will.
NOVALISEvery stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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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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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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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 are we really going? Always home.
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