Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
NOVALISNothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
NOVALISEverywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
NOVALISNot only England, but every Englishman is an island.
NOVALISEvery beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
NOVALISI often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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.
NOVALISOne can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
NOVALISTo become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
NOVALISMany books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
NOVALISCharacter is a wish for a perfect education.
NOVALISThe artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
NOVALISIn cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
NOVALISThere is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
NOVALISEvery stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
NOVALISPhilosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
NOVALISChristianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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