5 Novalis Quotes on Growth

Novalis quotes on growth

5. Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

9. Self-alienation is the source of all degradation as well as, on the contrary, the basis of all true elevation. The first step will be a look inward, an isolating contemplation of our self. Whoever remains standing here proceeds only halfway. The second step must be an active look outward, an autonomous, determined observation of the outer world.

56. Sleep is for the inhabitants of Planets only. In another time, Man will sleep and wake continually at once. The greater part of our Body, of our Humanity itself, yet sleeps a deep sleep.

88. The spirit is perpetually proving itself.

91. We shall never entirely comprehend ourselves, but we will and can do much more than comprehend ourselves.