To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
NOVALISWe are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
More Novalis Quotes
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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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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