The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
NOVALISMan is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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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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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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