There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
NOVALISLife must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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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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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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 world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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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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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