The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
NOVALISThe artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
NOVALISTo get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
NOVALISEvery stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
NOVALISMan 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.
NOVALISMathematics is the Life of the Gods.
NOVALISLife must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
NOVALISThe 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.
NOVALISGenius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
NOVALISMan is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
NOVALISMany things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
NOVALISIn cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
NOVALISAll the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
NOVALISAll power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
NOVALISLife 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.
NOVALISPhilosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
NOVALISEverywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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