We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
NOVALISAll power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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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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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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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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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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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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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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