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Love works magic. It is the finalpurpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe. -- Novalis
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home. -- Novalis
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom. -- Novalis
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand -- Novalis
One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and soul of the artist. -- Novalis
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men. -- Novalis
There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body. -- Novalis
All the chance events of our lives are materials from which we can make what we like. Whoever is rich in spirit makes much of his life. Every acquaintance, every incident would be for the thoroughly spiritual person - the first element in an endless series - the beginning of an endless novel. -- Novalis
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff. -- Novalis
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth . -- Novalis
Play is experimenting with chance. -- Novalis
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child. -- Novalis
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. -- Novalis
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth , air , and [[water. -- Novalis
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion. -- Novalis
A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests. -- Novalis
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. -- Novalis
But even more heavenly than the flashing
stars are those infinite eyes which the night opens within us, and which see further even than the palest of those
innumerable hosts. -- Novalis
Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come. -- Novalis
Man is a sun, his senses are the planets. -- Novalis
The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet. -- Novalis
Flight from the communal spirit is death! -- Novalis
mad, were not my perception and reasonings so clear; and this state of mind appears to have brought with it superior knowledge on all subjects. -- Novalis
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. -- Novalis
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death? -- Novalis
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit. -- Novalis
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception. -- Novalis
Accident is simply unforeseen order. -- Novalis
The badge of honesty is simplicity. -- Novalis
Holy sleep, do not so seldom bring happiness to the night's beloved in this earthly labour of the day. -- Novalis
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. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up! -- Novalis
What is nature? An encyclopedic systematic index or plan of our spirit. Why should we be content with the mere catalogue of our treasures - let us examine them for ourselves - and work with them and use them in diverse ways. -- Novalis
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order. -- Novalis
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe. -- Novalis
Apparently, we go forward. -- Novalis
Oh draw at my heart, love,
Draw till I'm gone,
That, fallen asleep, I
Still may love on.
I feel the flow of
Death's youth-giving flood
To balsam and ether
Transform my blood
I live all the daytime
In faith and in might
And in holy fire
I die every night. -- Novalis
The world must become romanticized, and in that way we find again its original meaning for us. -- Novalis
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out. -- Novalis
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. -- Novalis
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 closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete -- Novalis
You are alone with everything you love. -- Novalis
Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history. -- Novalis
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. -- Novalis
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. -- Novalis
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. -- Novalis
Our body is a moulded river -- Novalis
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found. -- Novalis
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 see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite. -- Novalis
Nature is a petrified magic city. -- Novalis
A complete need should not exist ... love, life in common with loved ones? -- Novalis
The most intimate community of all knowledge - the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars. -- Novalis
Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one. -- Novalis
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us. -- Novalis
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy. -- Novalis
Character and fate are two words for the same thing. -- Novalis
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here. -- Novalis
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. -- Novalis
To philosophize means to make vivid. -- Novalis
True anarchy is the generative element of religion. Out of the annihilation of all existing institutions she raises her glorious head, as the new foundress of the world. -- Novalis
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun. -- Novalis
There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide. -- Novalis
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man. -- Novalis
And now I awaken, for I am both yours and mine. -- Novalis
A character is a completely fashioned will. -- Novalis
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general. -- Novalis
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things. -- Novalis
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking
being awake
consciousness. -- Novalis
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness. -- Novalis
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home. -- Novalis
I was still blind , but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages. -- Novalis
We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future. -- Novalis
The process of history is combustion. -- Novalis
The poem of the understanding is philosophy. -- Novalis
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven. -- Novalis
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic. -- Novalis
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise. -- Novalis
Character is perfectly educated will. -- Novalis
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature. -- Novalis
Our bodies are molded rivers. -- Novalis
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 against one's conviction. -- Novalis
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise. -- Novalis
We are close to waking when we dream that we are dreaming. -- Novalis
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything. -- Novalis
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof -- Novalis
Character is a perfectly educated will. -- Novalis
How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me
and what I seem to learn is only nourishment
stimulation of the organism. -- Novalis
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. -- Novalis
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. -- Novalis
Where children are, there is the golden age. -- Novalis
Longing for Death
Down into the womb of the earth,
Out of the kingdom of light,
Anger, pain, and a savage blow
Signal the happy departure. -- Novalis
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 overlap. -- Novalis
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. -- Novalis
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. -- Novalis
The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of the materialists, the doctrine of Helvetius and also Locke has recieved the most acclaim amongst his class. Thus Kant even now will find more followers than Fichte. -- Novalis
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals. -- Novalis
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it. -- Novalis
Humanity is a comic role. -- Novalis
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity. -- Novalis
The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again. -- Novalis
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will. -- Novalis
Philosophy is really homesickness: the urge to be at home everywhere. -- Novalis
I show that I have understood a writer only when I can act in his spirit, when, without constricting his individuality, I can translate him and change him in diverse ways. -- Novalis
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor. -- Novalis
How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning. -- Novalis
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island. -- Novalis
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept. -- Novalis
Everything at a distance turns into
poetry; distant mountains, distant
people, distant events; all become
Romantic. -- Novalis
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible. -- Novalis
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend. -- Novalis
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity. -- Novalis
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible. -- Novalis
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch. -- Novalis
The history of every individual man should be a Bible. -- Novalis
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God , Freedom , Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy ? -- Novalis
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken. -- Novalis
Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history. -- Novalis
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 beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world. -- Novalis
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage. -- Novalis
Character is a wish for a perfect education. -- Novalis
Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests . -- Novalis
Where are we really going? Always home. -- Novalis
Where no gods are, spectres rule. -- Novalis
Every individual is the center of a system of emanation. -- Novalis
Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will. -- Novalis
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. -- Novalis
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution. -- Novalis
Everything is seed. -- Novalis
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods. -- Novalis