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.
NOVALISMathematics is the Life of the Gods.
More Novalis Quotes
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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