Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
NOVALISAccident is simply unforeseen order.
More Novalis Quotes
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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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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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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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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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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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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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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