Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
NOVALISThe artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
More Novalis Quotes
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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