The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
NOVALISCharacter and fate are two words for the same thing.
More Novalis Quotes
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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
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Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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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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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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You are alone with everything you love.
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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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