Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
NOVALISA God-intoxicated man.
More Novalis Quotes
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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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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Humanity is a comic role.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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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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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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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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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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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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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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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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