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.
NOVALISI often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
More Novalis Quotes
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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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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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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