Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
NOVALISTo become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
More Novalis Quotes
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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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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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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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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