Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
NOVALISThe artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
More Novalis Quotes
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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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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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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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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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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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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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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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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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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