The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
NOVALISHypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
More Novalis Quotes
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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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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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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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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