We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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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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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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