It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the… — 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… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary… — Novalis Copy Share Image
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… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding… — Novalis Copy Share Image
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Love works magic. It is the finalpurpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe. — 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
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
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals. — Novalis Copy Share Image
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form.… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us. — 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
