The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
NOVALISLife 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.
More Novalis Quotes
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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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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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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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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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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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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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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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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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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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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