Play is experimenting with chance.
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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Character is perfectly educated will.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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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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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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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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