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.
NOVALISThe world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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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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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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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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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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