The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
NOVALISWhen you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
More Novalis Quotes
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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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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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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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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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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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by 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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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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