The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
NOVALISTo philosophize means to make vivid.
More Novalis Quotes
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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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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You are alone with everything you love.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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