The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
NOVALISPoetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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