Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
NOVALISThe highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
More Novalis Quotes
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Play is experimenting with chance.
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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Our bodies are molded rivers.
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All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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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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The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Humanity is a comic role.
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