Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
NOVALISHumanity is a comic role.
More Novalis Quotes
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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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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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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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.
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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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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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