Novalis Quotes

» The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

» Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

» Where children are, there is the golden age.

» Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

» A character is a completely fashioned will.

» Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

» Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

» Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

» We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

» We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

» Every beloved object is the center of a paradise.

» Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

» Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

» Where no gods are, spectres rule.

» Nature is a petrified magic city.

» A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

» We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

» Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

» We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

» I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

» To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

» Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

» Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

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