Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
NOVALISEverywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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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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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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