Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
NOVALISEverything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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