Nature is a petrified magic city.
NOVALISChristianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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