All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
NOVALISA God-intoxicated man.
More Novalis Quotes
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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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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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 poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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