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 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.
More Novalis Quotes
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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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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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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