Novalis Quotes

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

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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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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.

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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself

does not want to understand