Novalis Quotes

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Men, Democracy, Fact

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Poetry, Reason, Wounds

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams, Dream, Dreaming

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Art, Work, Artist

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero, Knows, Longer

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character, Words, Two

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith, Knowledge, Half

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Invisible, Connected, Visible

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Life, Artist, Meaning

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Truth, Become, Against

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Home, Philosophy, Wish

Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age, Children, Golden

A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character, Fashioned

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Point, Object, Paradise

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character, Same, Often

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Learning, Enjoyment, Height

Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Nature, Magic, City

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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True, Nothing, Divinity

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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Life, Family, Far

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Far, Ourselves, Comprehend

Where no gods are, spectres rule.
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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Poet

Born: May 2, 1772

Died: March 25, 1801

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