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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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  Block, Moving, Shadow

  Novalis, Arthur Versluis (1989). “Pollen and fragments: selected poetry and prose of Novalis”, Phanes Pr

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• Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.

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  God, Spiritual, Moving

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 2, 1798.

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• To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

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  Positive, Wells, Knows

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• The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

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  Soul, World, Seats

  Novalis (1960). “Hymns to the night: and other selected writings”

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• The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

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  Knowledge, Men, Self

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• We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

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  Literature, Can Do

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• There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.

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  Men, Hands, Heaven

  Novalis (1995). “Novalis and the poets of pessimism: with an English translation by James Thomson ("B.V.") of Hymns to night”

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• The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

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  Sympathy, Soul, Unions

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• All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

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  Events, Materials, Our Lives

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• Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

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  Philosophy, Home, Wish

  "Novalis". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

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• Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

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  Lying, Sacrifice, Men

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.29, SUNY Press

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• Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

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  Epic, Men, Dramatic

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.65, SUNY Press

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• We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

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  Dream, Wake Up, Waking

  "Novalis". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

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• To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.

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  Knows

  "Viking Book of Aphorisms". Book by Louis Kronenberger and W. H. Auden, p. 323, 1962.

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• The badge of honesty is simplicity.

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  Honesty, Simplicity, Badges

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• When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.

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  Philosophy, Ideas, Self

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.48, SUNY Press

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• In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

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  Soul, Cheerful, Wit

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• Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

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  Delicacy, Delicate

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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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  Character, Fate, Realizing

  Heinrich von Ofterdingen bk. 2 (1802). Often quoted as "character is destiny" or "character is fate." See George Eliot 6; Heraclitus 2

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• Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

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  Eye, Heaven, Humanity

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.68, SUNY Press

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• A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.

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  Men, Solitude, Mind

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• Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

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  Islands, England, Englishmen

  "Fragments". Book by Novalis, 1799.

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• Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.

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  Pain, Soul, Mind

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.34, SUNY Press

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• How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.

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  Mean, Eye, Light

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• The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

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  Music, Art, Architecture

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