Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
NOVALISAll power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
More Novalis Quotes
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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