It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
NOVALISTo philosophize means to make vivid.
More Novalis Quotes
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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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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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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Where are we really going? Always home.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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The 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.
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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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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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