The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
NOVALISNature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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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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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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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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