{"author":"Novalis","author_id":"Novalis","total_quotes":27,"quotes":[{"text":"Character is perfectly educated will.","author":"Novalis","tags":["character","personality"],"id":516,"author_id":"Novalis"},{"text":"Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.","author":"Novalis","tags":["boredom","boring-books"],"id":29462,"author_id":"Novalis"},{"text":"Humanity 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. ","author":"Novalis","tags":["heaven","humanity","meaning"],"id":34520,"author_id":"Novalis"},{"text":"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.","author":"Novalis","tags":["depression","pain","philosophy"],"id":34529,"author_id":"Novalis"},{"text":"A God-intoxicated man.","author":"Novalis","tags":["glory"],"id":113593,"author_id":"Novalis"},{"text":"Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.","author":"Novalis","tags":["faith","half","other "],"id":122262,"author_id":"Novalis"},{"text":"The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of the materialists, the doctrine of Helvetius and also Locke has recieved the most acclaim amongst his class. Thus Kant even now will find more followers than Fichte.","author":"Novalis","tags":["fichte","helvetius","kant","locke","materialism"],"id":134003,"author_id":"Novalis"},{"text":"Nature is a petrified magic city.","author":"Novalis","tags":["city","magic","petrified "],"id":169077,"author_id":"Novalis"},{"text":"Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.","author":"Novalis","tags":["consciousness","novalis","philosophy","waking","wisdom"],"id":169782,"author_id":"Novalis"},{"text":"Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.","author":"Novalis","tags":["books","novels"],"id":223685,"author_id":"Novalis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}