Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
NOVALISCharacter and fate are two words for the same thing.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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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There 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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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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