Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
NOVALISFriends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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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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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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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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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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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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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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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