The badge of honesty is simplicity.
NOVALISPerceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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