One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
NOVALISA God-intoxicated man.
More Novalis Quotes
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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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 artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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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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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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.
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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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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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