Nature is a petrified magic city.
NOVALISOur bodies are molded rivers.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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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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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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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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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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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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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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