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.
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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You are alone with everything you love.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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 artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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