Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
NOVALISA God-intoxicated man.
More Novalis Quotes
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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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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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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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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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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