In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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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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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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 individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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