Humanity is a comic role.
NOVALISIf 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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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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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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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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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 disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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