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VII. Shakespeare is dangerous reading for budding talents; he compels them to reproduce him;
& they fancy they are reproducing themselves.
VIII. He who is content with pure experience and acts accordingly, has truth enough. The
growing child is wise in this sense.
IX. Theory, in & for itself, is nothing worth, but in so far as it makes us believe in the
connection of phenomena.
X. Certain books appear to be written, not that we may learn anything from them, but that
we may know that the author knows something.
XI. The dust that is on the point of being laid of some time to come, raises itself powerfully on
the approach of the storm.
XII. He who is ignorant of foreign languages, is ignorant of his own.
XIII. We do not possess what we do not understand.
XIV. All opposes of an intellectual matter only strake among the corals; these fly about & set
on fire when they would otherwise have no effect.
XV. Everything lyrical must be in the whole very reasonable, – in particular a little
unreasonable.
XVI. Truth belongs to the man, error to his age. (?)
XVII. Men need not to grow old in order to become tolerant. I see no fault committed which I
might not have committed myself.
XVIII. I can promise to be upright, but not to be impatient.
XIX. Ingratitude is a kind of weakness; I have never found able men ungrateful.
XX. Some one questioned [?] to the education of his children. ”Have them,” said he,
”instructed in that which they will never comprehend.”
XXI. Accomplished people are always the best Conversation-Lexicon.
XXII. In every work of art, great of little, all depends upon the conception.
XXIII. My relation to Schiller was founded upon the decided direction of both towards one object,
– on common activity upon the difference of the means by which we sought to reach it.
XXIV. It would not be worth while to be seventy years old if all the wisdom of the world were folly
in the eyes of God.
XXV. Men liken themselves to those whim they praise.
XXVI. Courage & modesty are the most undoubted virtues, for they are of a kind which
hypocrisy cannot imitate. They have also the property of expressing themselves by the same
hue.
XXVII. Respect for ourselves governs our morality, – respect for others, our behavior.
XXVIII. Of all thieves, fools are the worst: they rob you of both time & temper.
B. Novalis-Journal
Novalis
In Novalis are exhibited, with the simplicity of youth, those traits of the Romantic school which
may be more thoroughly studied out, because exhibited with the skill & flexibility of mature taste,