Novalis Quotes
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Novalis Famous Quotes & Sayings
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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.
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
mad, were not my perception and reasonings so clear; and this state of mind appears to have brought with it superior knowledge on all subjects.
Everything at a distance turns into
poetry; distant mountains, distant
people, distant events; all become
Romantic.
poetry; distant mountains, distant
people, distant events; all become
Romantic.
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand
One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and soul of the artist.
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
The most intimate community of all knowledge - the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars.
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God , Freedom , Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy ?