There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
NOVALISTo know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
More Novalis Quotes
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Man 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.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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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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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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