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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand
— Novalis
Tags: writing, wordplay, poetry, language

Other Quotes by "Novalis"

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.
— Novalis Novalis: Philosophical Writings
Tags: philosophy, pain, depression
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
— Novalis
Tags: height, enjoyment, doing, learning
Nature is a petrified magic city.
— Novalis
Tags: magic, city, nature
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
— Novalis
Tags: half, only, knowledge, faith
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
— Novalis
Tags: us, more, nothing, true
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