The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
NOVALISWhen you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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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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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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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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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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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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