Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
NOVALISLearning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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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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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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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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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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