Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
NOVALISWe are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
More Novalis Quotes
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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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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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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