All Novalis Quotes
- Our bodies are molded rivers. Bodies
- Mathematics is the Life of the Gods. God Life
- There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man. Body
- To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to… Aware
- Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. Active
- 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
- 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… Act
- The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature. Actual
- Character and fate are two words for the same thing Character
- Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined… Abstraction
- Imagination places the future world for us either above or below or in reincarnation. We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe… Depth
- What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death? Death
- 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… Every Point
- A character is a completely fashioned will. Character
- Character is perfectly educated will. Character
- Man is a sun, his senses are the planets. Inspirational
- Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. Aeolian
- All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will. All
- Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. Absolute
- Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and… Beginning