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.
NOVALISNothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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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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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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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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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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