Character is perfectly educated will.
NOVALISThe brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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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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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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 an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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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 history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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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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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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