Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
NOVALISTo get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
More Novalis Quotes
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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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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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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