Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
NOVALISNot only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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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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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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