Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
NOVALISPhilosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
NOVALISThe true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
NOVALISIn a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
NOVALISThe badge of honesty is simplicity.
NOVALISMan is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
NOVALISHumanity is a comic role.
NOVALISTo philosophize means to make vivid.
NOVALISOnly the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
NOVALISWhen you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
NOVALISLove is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
NOVALISEverywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
NOVALISOnly as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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.
NOVALISNature is a petrified magic city.
NOVALISPerceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
NOVALISThe artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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