When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
NOVALISAll power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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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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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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 become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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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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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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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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