You are alone with everything you love.
NOVALISYou are alone with everything you love.
NOVALISLife is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
NOVALISHumanity is a comic role.
NOVALISWhen you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
NOVALISOne 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.
NOVALISWe are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
NOVALISThere is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
NOVALISTo philosophize means to make vivid.
NOVALISEverything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
NOVALISOnly the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
NOVALISThe true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
NOVALISPhilosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
NOVALISHumanity 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.
NOVALISA God-intoxicated man.
NOVALISFate and temperament are the names of a concept.
NOVALISMathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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