Novalis Quotes

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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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
The 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.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World

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