Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
NOVALISWe touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
More Novalis Quotes
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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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 can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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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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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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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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