The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
NOVALISAll the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
More Novalis Quotes
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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