In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
NOVALISPerceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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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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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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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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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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