Novalis Quotes

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• To philosophize means to make vivid.
• Where are we really going? Always home.
• Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
• 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…
• One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand
• One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking…
• Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
• Humanity is a comic role.
• Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to…
• The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
• Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
• Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit…
• Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
• In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
• To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
• Character is a wish for a perfect education.
• The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
• Love works magic. It is the finalpurpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe.
• It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof
• How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the…

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