Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
NOVALISA character is a completely fashioned will.
More Novalis Quotes
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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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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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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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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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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Where are we really going? Always home.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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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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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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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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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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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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