Nature is a petrified magic city.
NOVALISThe individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
More Novalis Quotes
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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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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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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