Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
NOVALISYou are alone with everything you love.
More Novalis Quotes
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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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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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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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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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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