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.
NOVALISTo philosophize means to make vivid.
More Novalis Quotes
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Humanity is a comic role.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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