The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
NOVALISHypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
More Novalis Quotes
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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You are alone with everything you love.
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