A God-intoxicated man.
NOVALISHypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
More Novalis Quotes
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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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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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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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