The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
NovalisHumanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
NovalisImagination places the future world for us either above or below or in reincarnation. We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.
NovalisTo become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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