Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
NOVALISTo become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
More Novalis Quotes
-
-
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
NOVALIS -
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
NOVALIS -
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
NOVALIS -
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
NOVALIS -
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
NOVALIS -
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
NOVALIS -
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.
NOVALIS -
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
NOVALIS -
Our bodies are molded rivers.
NOVALIS -
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
NOVALIS -
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
NOVALIS -
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
NOVALIS -
Character is perfectly educated will.
NOVALIS -
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
NOVALIS -
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
NOVALIS -
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
NOVALIS -
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
NOVALIS -
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
NOVALIS -
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.
NOVALIS -
Where are we really going? Always home.
NOVALIS -
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
NOVALIS -
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
NOVALIS -
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
NOVALIS -
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.
NOVALIS -
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
NOVALIS -
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
NOVALIS