The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
NOVALISLove is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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