When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
NOVALISNothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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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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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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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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Where are we really going? Always home.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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