The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
NOVALISHypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
More Novalis Quotes
-
-
Our bodies are molded rivers.
NOVALIS -
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
NOVALIS -
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
NOVALIS -
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
NOVALIS -
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
NOVALIS -
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
NOVALIS -
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
NOVALIS -
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
NOVALIS -
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.
NOVALIS -
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
NOVALIS -
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.
NOVALIS -
Where are we really going? Always home.
NOVALIS -
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
NOVALIS -
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
NOVALIS -
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
NOVALIS