All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
NOVALISWe are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
More Novalis Quotes
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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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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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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