Quotes By Novalis

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

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

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

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

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

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

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

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

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

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

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.