Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
NOVALISEvery disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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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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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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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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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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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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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If 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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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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