We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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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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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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