We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
NOVALISPerceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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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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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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