Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.
Novalis
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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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 really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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