Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
NOVALISAll power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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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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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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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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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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