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 become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
More Novalis Quotes
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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