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.
NOVALISPerceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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