Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
NOVALISNothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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