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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
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
Play is experimenting with chance.
— 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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
— Novalis
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof
— 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
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
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
Character is a perfectly educated will.
— 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 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
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
Down into the womb of the earth,
Out of the kingdom of light,
Anger, pain, and a savage blow
Signal the happy departure. — Novalis
Our body is a moulded river
— 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
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
— Novalis
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
— Novalis
Our bodies are molded rivers.
— Novalis
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
— Novalis
'Character, says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
— George Eliot
Character is perfectly educated will.
— Novalis
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand
— Novalis
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
— 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
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
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
— Novalis
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
— Novalis