Novalis Quotes

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• 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 see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

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  Magic, World, Sacred

  "Bildung in Early German Romanticism" by Frederick C. Beiser. "Philosophers on Education: New Historical Perspectives". Book edited by Amélie Rorty, p. 294, 1998.

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• In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

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  Art, Order, Veils

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• Where are we really going? Always home.

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  Home

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• Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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  Inspiring, Healing, Poetry

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Jonathan Williams, p. 136, 1989.

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• The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

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  Past, Inward, World

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• A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

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  Motivational, Memorial Day, Hero

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• We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

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  Spiritual, Literature, Invisible

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• Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

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  Made, Given, Novel

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.66, SUNY Press

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• Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

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  Life, Magic, Stories

  Thoughts on Religion, Pt. 1, "Hymns and Thoughts on Religion" edited and translated by W. Hastie, 1888.

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• Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

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  Perfect, Silence, Delicacy

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• When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, How To Love

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• There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

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  Inspirational, Men, Body

  "Novalis". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

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• Accident is simply unforeseen order.

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  Order, Unforeseen, Accidents

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• 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 within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.

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  Dream, Lying, Past

  "Blüthenstaub". Book by Novalis, 1798.

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• To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

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  Positive, Wells, Knows

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• Everything at a distance turns into
  poetry; distant mountains, distant
  people, distant events; all become
  Romantic.

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  Distance, People, Mountain

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• You are alone with everything you love.

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• Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

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  Echoes, Musical, Tone

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• Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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  Literature, Height, Enjoyment

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• To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.

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  Knows

  "Viking Book of Aphorisms". Book by Louis Kronenberger and W. H. Auden, p. 323, 1962.

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• All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

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  Events, Materials, Our Lives

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• 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 acting against one's conviction.

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  Lying, Sacrifice, Men

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.29, SUNY Press

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• 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 idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.

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  Philosophy, Ideas, Self

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.48, SUNY Press

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• Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

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  Men, Literature, Married

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• The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

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  Knowledge, Men, Self

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