Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy? — Novalis Copy Share Image
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom. — Novalis Copy Share Image
“The letter is only an aid to philosophical communication, the actual essence of which consists in arousing a particular train of thought.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest… — Novalis Copy Share Image
When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical,… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion. — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Whoever sees life other than as a self-destroying illusion is himself still preoccupied with life. Life must not be a novel that is given… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Inspiration without intellect is useless and dangerous; and the poet will be able to perform few wonders, when he is astonished by wonders.” — Novalis Copy Share Image
It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“The world must be romanticized. Only in that way will one rediscover its original senses. Romanticization is nothing less than a qualitative raising of… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who… — Novalis Copy Share Image
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… — Novalis Copy Share Image
