Accident is simply unforeseen order.
NOVALISHypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
More Novalis Quotes
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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