We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
NOVALISPhilosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
More Novalis Quotes
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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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.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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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.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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