Quotes by Novalis, Novalis: Philosophical Writings

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Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost-- — Novalis, Novalis: Philosophical Writings
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us. — Novalis, Novalis: Philosophical Writings
Humanity is a comic role. — Novalis, Novalis: Philosophical Writings
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. — Novalis, Novalis: Philosophical Writings
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it r — Novalis, Novalis: Philosophical Writings
The true reader must be an extension of the author. He is the higher court that receives the case already prepared by th — Novalis, Novalis: Philosophical Writings
Almost all genius up to now was one-sided—the result of a sickly constitution. One type had too much sense of the extern — Novalis, Novalis: Philosophical Writings
The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of the materialists, the — Novalis, Novalis: Philosophical Writings
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinit — Novalis, Novalis: Philosophical Writings