Top 100 Novalis Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.”

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2. “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

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3. “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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4. “There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.”

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5. “Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.”

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6. “Where are we really going? Always home.”

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7. “Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.”

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8. “Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.”

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9. “Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.”

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10. “The poem of the understanding is philosophy.”

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11. “In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.”

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12. “We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.”

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13. “Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.”

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14. “Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.”

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15. “We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!”

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16. “The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us.”

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17. “Love works magic. It is the finalpurpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe.”

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

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19. “Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.”

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20. “Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.”

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

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22. “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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23. “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 closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.”

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24. “The badge of honesty is simplicity.”

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25. “Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.”

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26. “Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.”

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27. “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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28. “We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .”

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29. “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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30. “What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?”

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31. “Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.”

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32. “Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.”

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33. “Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.”

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34. “Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.”

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35. “Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking – being awake – consciousness.”

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36. “I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being’s limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.”

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37. “You are alone with everything you love.”

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38. “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 out the sun.”

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39. “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 heaven.”

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40. “The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.”

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41. “Man is a sun, his senses are the planets.”

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42. “The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”

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43. “We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.”

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44. “Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.”

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45. “To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.”

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46. “Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.”

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47. “It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.”

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48. “The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.”

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49. “Inspiration without intellect is useless and dangerous; and the poet will be able to perform few wonders, when he is astonished by wonders.”

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50. “To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.”

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