The badge of honesty is simplicity.
NOVALISIn a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
More Novalis Quotes
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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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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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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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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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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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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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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