Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
NOVALISThe brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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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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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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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 history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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