Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
NOVALISLife must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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The 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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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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