Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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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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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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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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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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