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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/the-best-thing-about-the-sciences-is-their-philosophical-ingredient/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

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## More by Novalis

> [To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/to-get-to-know-a-truth-properly-one-must-polemicize-it/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

> [Character is a wish for a perfect education.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/character-is-a-wish-for-a-perfect-education/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

> [“Whoever sees life other than as a self-destroying illusion is himself still preoccupied with life. Life must not be a novel that is given…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/whoever-sees-life-other-than-as-a-self-destroying-illusion-is-himself/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

> [“Inspiration without intellect is useless and dangerous; and the poet will be able to perform few wonders, when he is astonished by wonders.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/inspiration-without-intellect-is-useless-and-dangerous-and-the-poet/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

> [It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/it-is-not-merely-the-multiplicity-of-tints-the-gladness-of-tone-or/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

> [“The world must be romanticized. Only in that way will one rediscover its original senses. Romanticization is nothing less than a qualitative raising of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/the-world-must-be-romanticized-only-in-that-way-will-one-rediscover/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

> [Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/nature-is-an-aeolian-harp-a-musical-instrument-whose-tones-are-the-re/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

> [Our bodies are molded rivers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/our-bodies-are-molded-rivers/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

> [Where are we really going? Always home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/where-are-we-really-going-always-home/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

> [Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/darwin-remarks-that-we-are-less-dazzled-by-the-light-at-waking-if-we/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

> [We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/we-are-near-waking-when-we-dream-we-are-dreaming/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

> [Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/man-has-his-being-in-truth-if-he-sacrifices-truth-he-sacrifices/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

> [Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/every-beloved-object-is-the-center-point-of-a-paradise/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

> [In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/in-a-work-of-art-chaos-must-shimmer-through-the-veil-of-order/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

> [Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/novalis/many-things-are-too-delicate-to-be-thought-many-more-to-be-spoken/)

[Novalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/novalis/)

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