You are alone with everything you love.
NOVALISIt is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
More Novalis Quotes
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Where are we really going? Always home.
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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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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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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 best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Character is perfectly educated will.
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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.
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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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