The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however,… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Almost all genius up to now was one-sided—the result of a sickly constitution. One type had too much sense of the external,… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night − the duration of sleep eternal.” — Novalis Copy Share Image
Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“The imagination places the world of the future either far above us, or far below, or in a relation of metempsychosis to… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Everything that we experience is a communication . In fact, so is the world too a communication -- the revelation of spirit.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Imagination places the future world for us either above or below or in reincarnation. We dream of travels throughout the universe: is… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“It is the most capricious prejudice to believe that a human being is denied the capacity to be outside himself, to be… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“In the earliest times of the discovery of the faculty of judgment, every new judgment was a find. The worth of this… — 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
