Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
NOVALISAccident is simply unforeseen order.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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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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Every 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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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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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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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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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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You are alone with everything you love.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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