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.
NOVALISPrayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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