Where children are, there is the golden age.
NOVALISA hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
More Novalis Quotes
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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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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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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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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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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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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