Accident is simply unforeseen order.
NOVALISThe badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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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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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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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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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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