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.
NOVALISTo get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
More Novalis Quotes
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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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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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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