Nature is a petrified magic city.
NOVALISNature is a petrified magic city.
NOVALISIf 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.
NOVALISLearning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
NOVALISTo know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
NOVALISPhilosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
NOVALISWe are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
NOVALISAccident is simply unforeseen order.
NOVALISA hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
NOVALISIn cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
NOVALISEverything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
NOVALISOne 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.
NOVALISPhilosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
NOVALISOnly an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
NOVALISThe Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
NOVALISBuilding worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
NOVALISWhere children are, there is the golden age.
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