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Novalis
German
Poet
About the author
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
Novalis,
German
Poet
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Dream
#Waking
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Work
#Artist
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#First
#Truth
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Home
#Philosophy
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Life
#Family
#Man
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Life
#Artist
#Meaning
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Nothing
#Divinity
Nature is a petrified magic city.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Magic
#Nature
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Character
#Fate
A character is a completely fashioned will.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Character
#Will
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Novalis,
German
Poet
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Character
#Words
#Fate
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Christianity
#Democracy
#Men
#Fact
#Rights
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Paradise
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
Novalis,
German
Poet
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Learning
#Enjoyment
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Faith
#Knowledge
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Reason
#Poetry
#Wounds
Where no gods are, spectres rule.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Gods
Where children are, there is the golden age.
Novalis,
German
Poet
#Children
#Age