Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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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Character is perfectly educated will.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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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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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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