Humanity is a comic role.
NOVALISKnowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
More Novalis Quotes
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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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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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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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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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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