There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
NOVALISAll the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
More Novalis Quotes
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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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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Where are we really going? Always home.
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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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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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