Where are we really going? Always home.
NOVALISWhere children are, there is the golden age.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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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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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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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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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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