We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
NOVALISEverything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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