Quotes by Novalis

Novalis

German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg)

Lived from: 1772 - 1801

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: Germany

Born: 2 may 1772 Died: 25 march 1801

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• A character is a completely fashioned will.

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• Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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• My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

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• Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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• 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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• The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

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• The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

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• We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

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• Where children are, there is the golden age.

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• Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• christianity
• conviction
• enjoyment
• immensely
• interpret
• democracy

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