Novalis Quotes


"Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment."
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(Related: Enjoyment, Learning)

"Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other."
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(Related: Faith, Knowledge)

"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
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(Related: Poetry, Reason, Wounds)

"Where no gods are, spectres rule."
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(Related: Gods)

"Where children are, there is the golden age."
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(Related: Age, Children)

"We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend."
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"We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming."
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(Related: Dream, Waking)

"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
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(Related: Work, Artist)

"To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it."
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(Related: Truth, First)

"Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home."
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(Related: Home, Philosophy)

"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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(Related: Family, Life, Man)

"Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life."
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(Related: Life, Artist, Meaning)

"Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity."
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(Related: Divinity, Nothing)

"Nature is a petrified magic city."
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(Related: Nature, Magic)

"I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception."
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(Related: Character, Fate)

"A character is a completely fashioned will."
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(Related: Character, Will)

"A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer."
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"Character and fate are two words for the same thing."
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(Related: Character, Fate, Words)

"Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men."
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(Related: Men, Christianity, Democracy, Fact, Rights)

"Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise."
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(Related: Paradise)