Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
NOVALISPoetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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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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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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