A God-intoxicated man.
NOVALISNothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
More Novalis Quotes
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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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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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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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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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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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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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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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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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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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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