In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
NOVALISFate and temperament are the names of a concept.
More Novalis Quotes
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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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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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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