Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
NOVALISWe are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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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 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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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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