Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
NOVALISKnowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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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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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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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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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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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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