Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
NOVALISWe are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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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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You are alone with everything you love.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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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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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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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 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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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