Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
NOVALISYou are alone with everything you love.
More Novalis Quotes
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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The history of every individual 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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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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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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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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Character is perfectly educated will.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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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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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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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