We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
NOVALISLife is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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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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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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One 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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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