The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
NOVALISNothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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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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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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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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