The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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.
More Novalis Quotes
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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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.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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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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