Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
NOVALISKnowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
More Novalis Quotes
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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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.
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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