Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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More Novalis Quotes
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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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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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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