The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
NOVALISThe world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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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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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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