Play is experimenting with chance.
NOVALISThe brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
More Novalis Quotes
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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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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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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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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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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