Novalis Quotes
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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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Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.
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How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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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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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.
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Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.
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Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.
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A complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones?
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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