Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
NOVALISHypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
NOVALISNature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
NOVALISI often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
NOVALISNot only England, but every Englishman is an island.
NOVALISEvery beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
NOVALISYou are alone with everything you love.
NOVALISThere is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
NOVALISPoetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
NOVALISWhat delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
NOVALISCharacter is perfectly educated will.
NOVALISPrayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
NOVALISDoing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
NOVALISPhilosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
NOVALISThe artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
NOVALISThe mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
NOVALISPerceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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