The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
NOVALISMathematics is the Life of the Gods.
More Novalis Quotes
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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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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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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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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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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