Accident is simply unforeseen order.
NOVALISAll power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
More Novalis Quotes
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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A God-intoxicated man.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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