The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
NOVALISEverywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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Humanity is a comic role.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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