The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
NOVALISThe 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.
More Novalis Quotes
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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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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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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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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