Play is experimenting with chance.
NOVALISCharacter and fate are two words for the same thing.
More Novalis Quotes
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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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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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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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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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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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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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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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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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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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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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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