Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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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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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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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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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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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