Novalis Quotes
Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism.
(1772 – 1801)
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A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.
[Mind]
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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A God-intoxicated man.
[Glory]
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
[Character]
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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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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Happy those who here on earth have dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Innocence and ignorance are sisters. But there are noble and vulgar sisters. Vulgar innocence and ignorance are mortal, they have pretty faces, but wholly without expression, and of a transient beauty; the noble sisters are immortal, their lofty forms are unchangeable, and their countenances are still radiant with the light of paradise. They dwell in heaven, and visit only the noblest and most severely tried of mankind.
[Innocence]
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
[Sympathy]
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
[Knowledge]
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
[Learning]
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Nature is an AEolian harp, a musical instrument, whose tones are the reecho of higher strings within us.
[Nature]
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No one who has not a complete knowledge of himself will ever have a true understanding of another.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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