The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
NOVALISOne 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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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Philosophy 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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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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