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Quotes by Novalis

A character is a completely fashioned will.
– Novalis
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
– Novalis
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.
– Novalis
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
– Novalis
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
– Novalis
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
– Novalis
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
– Novalis
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
– Novalis
Where children are, there is the golden age.
– Novalis
There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.
– Novalis
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
– Novalis
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
– Novalis
Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.
– Novalis
Nature is a petrified magic city.
– Novalis
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
– Novalis