There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
NOVALISChristianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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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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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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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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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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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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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