Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
NOVALISMan is a sun and his senses are the planets.
More Novalis Quotes
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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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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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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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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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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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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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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