We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
NOVALISMathematics is the Life of the Gods.
More Novalis Quotes
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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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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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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