The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
NOVALISWe never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
More Novalis Quotes
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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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 is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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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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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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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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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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