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.
NOVALISThe highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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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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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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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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