Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
NOVALISOnly the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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