Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
NOVALISMan is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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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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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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