Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
NOVALISEvery disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at 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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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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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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