Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
NOVALISCharacter is perfectly educated will.
More Novalis Quotes
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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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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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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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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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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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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