Play is experimenting with chance.
NOVALISPlay is experimenting with chance.
NOVALISCharacter is perfectly educated will.
NOVALISTo become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
NOVALISMathematics is the Life of the Gods.
NOVALISOnly the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
NOVALISPoetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
NOVALISHypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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.
NOVALISWe are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
NOVALISCharacter and fate are two words for the same thing.
NOVALISThere 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.
NOVALISThe true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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.
NOVALISLove is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
NOVALISCharacter is a wish for a perfect education.
NOVALISWhere children are, there is the golden age.
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