Novalis Quotes

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• Our bodies are molded rivers.
• Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
• There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
• To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to…
• Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
• 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 of…
• When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating…
• The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
• Character and fate are two words for the same thing
• Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined…
• Imagination places the future world for us either above or below or in reincarnation. We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe…
• What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
• 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…
• A character is a completely fashioned will.
• Character is perfectly educated will.
• Man is a sun, his senses are the planets.
• Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
• All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
• Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
• Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and…

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