Play is experimenting with chance.
NOVALISAll power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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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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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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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 seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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