We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
NOVALISIt is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
More Novalis Quotes
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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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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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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