When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
NOVALISWhen you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
NOVALISIt is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
NOVALISThe best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
NOVALISWe are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
NOVALISWhat delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
NOVALISThe highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
NOVALISIn cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
NOVALISThere is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
NOVALISLearning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
NOVALISPhilosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
NOVALISPhilosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
NOVALISThe world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
NOVALISThere 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.
NOVALISDoing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
NOVALISEvery stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
NOVALISThe history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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