One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
NOVALISWe are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
More Novalis Quotes
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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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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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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A God-intoxicated man.
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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