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.
NOVALISIn a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
More Novalis Quotes
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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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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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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