Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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You are alone with everything you love.
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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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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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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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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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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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