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.
NOVALISThe 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.
More Novalis Quotes
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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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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Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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