The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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The 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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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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