The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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More Novalis Quotes
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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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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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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