Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
NOVALISCharacter and fate are two words for the same thing.
More Novalis Quotes
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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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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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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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.
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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.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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