Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
NovalisRead
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Learning is enjoyable, but the deepest joy comes from applying that knowledge through action.
This quote by Novalis emphasizes the idea that while the process of learning itself can be enjoyable and rewarding, the ultimate fulfillment comes when we take action based on what we have learned. It suggests that engagement and practical application of knowledge yield a higher level of satisfaction than mere knowledge acquisition.
Themes
LearningDoingEnjoymentApplicationExperience
In practice
Example use cases
In a presentation on the importance of experiential learning.
More from Novalis
All quotes βEvery beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
NovalisRead
Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.
NovalisRead
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
NovalisRead
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
NovalisRead
How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.
NovalisRead
Similar quotes
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
Margaret AtwoodRead
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
David LodgeRead
The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.
Thomas JeffersonRead
There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.
Tupac ShakurRead
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
J. G. BallardRead
From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.
Ray BradburyRead