Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
NOVALISPhilosophy 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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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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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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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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