Quotes by Novalis

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

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

Novalis on agreement   

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

Novalis on learning   

"Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general."

Novalis on marriage
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"The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist."

Novalis on art   

"Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life."

Novalis on art   

"A character is a completely fashioned will."

Novalis on character   

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"Where children are, there is the golden age."

Novalis on children   

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

Novalis on christians and christianity