Accident is simply unforeseen order.
NOVALISThe history of every individual man should be a Bible.
More Novalis Quotes
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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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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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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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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Humanity is a comic role.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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