Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
NOVALISThe world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
More Novalis Quotes
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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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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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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