Novalis Quotes

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

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

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

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

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

Nature is a petrified magic city.

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

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

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

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

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

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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.