Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
NOVALISOnly the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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