To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
NOVALISMathematics is the Life of the Gods.
More Novalis Quotes
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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