Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
NOVALISThe brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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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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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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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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