Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
NOVALISThe true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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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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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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