More from Novalis
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
NovalisNovalis Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
NovalisNovalis Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
NovalisNovalis Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
NovalisNovalis A character is a completely fashioned will.
NovalisNovalis Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
NovalisNovalis 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.
NovalisNovalis Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
NovalisNovalis Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
NovalisNovalis Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
NovalisNovalis The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
NovalisNovalis To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
NovalisNovalis Where children are, there is the golden age.
NovalisNovalis All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
NovalisNovalis 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.
NovalisNovalis I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
NovalisNovalis
Original quotes
From our community writers
Find someone who can hear you even when you’re silent.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
Lang LeavLang Leav
Meet the writers
More on character
The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.
Simon SinekSimon Sinek Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
Vince LombardiVince Lombardi People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.
A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
Barack ObamaBarack Obama