It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
NOVALISThe world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
More Novalis Quotes
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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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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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