To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
NOVALISA hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
More Novalis Quotes
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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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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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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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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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 world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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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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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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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