All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
NOVALISMathematics is the Life of the Gods.
More Novalis Quotes
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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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 really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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