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.
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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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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