The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
NOVALISThe history of every individual man should be a Bible.
More Novalis Quotes
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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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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There 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.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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The 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.
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Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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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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