Humanity is a comic role.
NOVALISThe world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
More Novalis Quotes
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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