A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
NOVALISA God-intoxicated man.
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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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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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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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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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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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