Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
NOVALISThere is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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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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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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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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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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