Novalis Quotes
- The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds.…
- The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
- Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
- Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
- Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
- The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
- A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
- To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
- Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
- We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
- We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
- Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
- Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
- Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
- Where children are, there is the golden age.
- Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
- I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
- Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
- We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
- Play is experimenting with chance.