Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
NOVALISEvery disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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