Nature is a petrified magic city.
NOVALISThe Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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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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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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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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