A character is a completely fashioned will.
NOVALISPlay is experimenting with chance.
More Novalis Quotes
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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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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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The 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.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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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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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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