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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. — Novalis

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out. — Novalis

Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things. — Novalis

Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution. — Novalis

A complete need should not exist ... love, life in common with loved ones? — Novalis

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island. — Novalis

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit. — Novalis

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception. — Novalis

Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic. — Novalis

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history. — Novalis

Love works magic. It is the finalpurpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe. — Novalis

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise. — Novalis

Play is experimenting with chance. — Novalis

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness. — Novalis

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. — Novalis

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. — Novalis

Man is a sun, his senses are the planets. — Novalis

Nature is a petrified magic city. — Novalis

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order. — Novalis

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch. — Novalis

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof — Novalis

Character and fate are two words for the same thing. — Novalis

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible. — Novalis

The poem of the understanding is philosophy. — Novalis

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. — Novalis

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth . — Novalis

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men. — Novalis

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests . — Novalis

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. — Novalis

To philosophize means to make vivid. — Novalis

Character is a wish for a perfect education. — Novalis

To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it. — Novalis

The process of history is combustion. — Novalis

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. — Novalis

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. — Novalis

Everything at a distance turns into
poetry; distant mountains, distant
people, distant events; all become
Romantic. — Novalis

The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us. — Novalis

Philosophy is really homesickness: the urge to be at home everywhere. — Novalis

Character is a perfectly educated will. — Novalis

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us. — Novalis

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. — Novalis

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken. — Novalis

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. — Novalis

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom. — Novalis

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. — Novalis

Where are we really going? Always home. — Novalis

Longing for Death
Down into the womb of the earth,
Out of the kingdom of light,
Anger, pain, and a savage blow
Signal the happy departure. — Novalis

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. — Novalis

Our body is a moulded river — Novalis

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home. — Novalis

Novalis and Dostoyevsky, awaited me just as do the mother, or the wife, the children, maids, dogs and cats in the case of more sensible people. — Hermann Hesse

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity. — Novalis

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature. — Novalis

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff. — Novalis

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise. — Novalis

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. — Novalis

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion. — Novalis

And now I awaken, for I am both yours and mine. — Novalis

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child. — Novalis

Where children are, there is the golden age. — Novalis

Our bodies are molded rivers. — Novalis

Flight from the communal spirit is death! — Novalis

Every individual is the center of a system of emanation. — Novalis

Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one. — Novalis

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. — Novalis

The badge of honesty is simplicity. — Novalis

The history of every individual man should be a Bible. — Novalis

'Character, says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'. — George Eliot

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will. — Novalis

Character is perfectly educated will. — Novalis

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend. — Novalis

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand — Novalis

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. — Novalis

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. — Novalis

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will. — Novalis

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. — Novalis

You are alone with everything you love. — Novalis

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. — Novalis

Accident is simply unforeseen order. — Novalis

The most intimate community of all knowledge - the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars. — Novalis

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept. — Novalis

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home. — Novalis

Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking
being awake
consciousness. — Novalis

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. — Novalis

A character is a completely fashioned will. — Novalis

Where no gods are, spectres rule. — Novalis

Everything is seed. — Novalis

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God , Freedom , Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy ? — Novalis

The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state. — Frederick C. Beiser

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals. — Novalis

We are close to waking when we dream that we are dreaming. — Novalis

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. — Novalis

Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy. — Novalis

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death? — Novalis

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man. — Novalis

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods. — Novalis

The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again. — Novalis

Holy sleep, do not so seldom bring happiness to the night's beloved in this earthly labour of the day. — Novalis

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history. — Novalis