Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
NOVALISMan is a sun and his senses are the planets.
More Novalis Quotes
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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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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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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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.
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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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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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