Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
NOVALISBuilding worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
More Novalis Quotes
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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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.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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