The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
NOVALISPhilosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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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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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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