The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
NOVALISThe artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
More Novalis Quotes
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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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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Humanity is a comic role.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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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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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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