The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
NOVALISThe mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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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.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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