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.
NOVALISEvery disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
More Novalis Quotes
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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