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Novalis Inspirational Quotes (52)

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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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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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A complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones?
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Character is a perfectly educated will.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.
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