Where are we really going? Always home.
NOVALISLife must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
More Novalis Quotes
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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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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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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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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