There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
NOVALISNature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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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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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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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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