The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
NOVALISMany things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
More Novalis Quotes
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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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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You are alone with everything you love.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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