Accident is simply unforeseen order.
NOVALISThe artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
More Novalis Quotes
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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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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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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