We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
NOVALISTo know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
More Novalis Quotes
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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