We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
NOVALISThere is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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