To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
NOVALISKnowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
More Novalis Quotes
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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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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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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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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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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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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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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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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