Where children are, there is the golden age.
NOVALISPrayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
More Novalis Quotes
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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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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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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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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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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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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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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