Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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More Novalis Quotes
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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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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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A God-intoxicated man.
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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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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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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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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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