Humanity is a comic role.
NOVALISEverything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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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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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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