Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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