The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
NOVALISThere is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
More Novalis Quotes
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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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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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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