What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
NOVALISNot only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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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 bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Humanity is a comic role.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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