We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
NOVALISNot only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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